Bob Mondello
Stories
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National
'The Fall Guy' entertains as an action-adventure romcom while revealing movie magic
In the new stunt-crammed romcom The Fall Guy, Ryan Gosling is a stuntman, and Emily Blunt is both his ex and his director.
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Arts & Life
A dying father looks for the perfect family to adopt his son in 'Nowhere Special'
A young single dad is on a mission in the film Nowhere Special. With a terminal illness and no family to turn to, he's searching for the perfect adoptive family for his four-year-old son.
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Movies
'We Grown Now' imbues hope in a coming-of-age story in a Chicago housing project
A gently poetic coming-of-age story, We Grown Now chronicles an adolescent friendship in Chicago's Cabrini Green housing project in the early 1990s.
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Arts & Life
Dystopian film 'Civil War' follows journalists covering a second American civil war
Alex Garland's dystopian thriller Civil War depicts a current-day, less-than-united states of America in which journalists are scrambling to get to the White House before rebel factions do.
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Arts & Life
What to expect at the Oscars: The bomb, the bombshell, and the possible comeback
The Motion Picture Academy hopes that more popular films, an earlier showtime, and increased diversity among nominees will lead to higher viewership.
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Arts & Life
'Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse' may just win the series another Oscar
The first film in an animated Spider-Verse trilogy won an Oscar in 2018. The latest installment, Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse, will be a strong contender to repeat that accomplishment.
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Arts & Life
Revisiting 'The Holdovers,' which is up for an Oscar along with actor Paul Giamatti
Paul Giamatti plays a 1970s prep-school teacher reluctantly supervising students with nowhere to go for the Christmas holidays in Alexander Payne's dramedy, The Holdovers.
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Arts & Life
First-time filmmaker Cord Jefferson's 'American Fiction' is both moving and hilarious
Jeffrey Wright plays a frustrated author who writes an preposterously stereotypical "Black" book as a joke, only to have it become a bestseller in the comedy American Fiction.
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Arts & Life
'Bob Marley: One Love' is a heartfelt biopic about the celebrated reggae musician
The biopic Bob Marley: One Love stars Kingsley Ben Adir as the Jamaican singer/songwriter who became the world's most celebrated reggae musician.
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Stephen Sondheim is cool now
With three shows running currently in NY and two more on tour, the late composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim is as present in contemporary theater as he was when he was alive.